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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Norm-Referenced Test
Phonemic Awareness
Fluency
Attention
2. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Attention
Anna Gillingham
Morphology
Accuracy
3. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
RTI
ALTA
Dyslexia
4. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Closed Syllable
Pre-English
Dyslexia
5. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Grade equivalents
Simultaneous teaching
Direct Instruction
6. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Achievement test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Open Syllable
7. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Phonology
Profile
Trigraph
8. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
ADHD
Breve
Direct Instruction
IDEA
9. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
VV
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Prefix
Modern English
10. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Trigraph
Dyslexia
Phonics
11. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Vowel
Percentile/ percentile rank
Trigraph
Phonemic Awareness
12. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Phonology
Frank Smith
V-e
Joe Torgesen
13. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Phonics approach
Vowel Digraph
Components of Reading Instruction
14. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Towre
Fluency
Diphthong
Letter naming Chart
15. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
James Hinshelwood
Old English
Six basic types of syllables
16. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Affix
IDEA
Consonant
Syllable Instruction
17. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Trigraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Open Syllable
Joe Torgesen
18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Trigraph
Raw score
Phoneme
19. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Impulsivity
Prefix
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
20. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Accent
Vr
VAKT
VC
21. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Expressive language
Achievement test
Cedilla
22. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Phoneme
Linguistic Method
23. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Norm-Referenced Test
Direct Instruction
Criterion-Referenced Test
NICHD
24. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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25. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonological Awareness
VC
CTOPP
Vowel
26. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Linguistic Method
Base Word
Oral Language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
27. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Standard Scores
Macron
Direct Instruction
Phonemic/ decodable words
28. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Orthography
Achievement test
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
29. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
CTOPP
Academic Achievement Tests
Whole Language
MSLE
30. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Comprehension
WIATII
Norm-Referenced Test
31. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Vowel
Stanine Scores
Middle English
Top-down Reading Approach
32. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
GORT
Phonemic Awareness
Criterion referenced tests
Morpheme
33. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Phonics approach
WIATII
34. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Cognition
Reliability
Achievement test
Universal Screening
35. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Accuracy
Great Vowel Shift
36. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Comprehension
Composite Score
IDEA
37. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
The Norman Conquest
Ability
Semantics
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
38. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Derived Score
[-'le
Cognition
Phonological Awareness
39. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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40. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Ability
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Consonant Digraph
41. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Standard score
Matthew Effect
42. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Three Layers of Language
Texas Education Code 38.003
Trigraph
43. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
GORT
Chall's Stage 5
Texas Education Code 28.06
Chall's Stage 2
44. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Matthew Effect
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Phonemic/ decodable words
Quadrigraph
45. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Standard deviation
Consonant
Standard score
46. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Funding
Impulsivity
IDEA
47. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Consonant Digraph
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Auditory Learners
Ability
48. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
MSL
Fluency
Diagnostic Teaching
49. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Comprehension
Open Syllable
IMSLEC
ADHD
50. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Curriculum referenced tests
Combination
Tactile
Chall's Stage 4